The first book of the Penny Parrish Series. Classic fiction from the 1940s. Carrol Houghton spends the summer with Penny Parrish and her warm and happy family at Fort Arden in Kansas. Never has Carrol enjoyed herself so! Penny shows Carrol the fun and adventures of life on a military base during a star-spangled summer. .

Penny and Carrol begin to face more grown up problems in this Penny Parrish story yet never lose sight of their excitement and fun for life. Penny celebrates her eighteenth birthday with her friends and continues her celebration with a New York shopping trip with Carrol. Their fun is interrupted by the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. The two friends muster the courage and character that they have developed over their youth so they may face the heartbreak and uncertainties that war brings.

Book 4 of the Penny Parrish Series. After working hard in a summer stock company, Penny Parrish is cast in a Broadway show where she meets stage manager, Josh MacDonald. Penny learns more about life in the theatre and how it feels to wait for the curtain to go up on opening night.

David returns from oversees and meets his new baby, Davy. Penny ponders the question of a theatre career versus life in the country. As she considers marriage, will she choose Josh MacDonald, Terry Hayes, or Michael Drayton?

Book 2 of the Jordon Series. The Jordon and Parrish families meet! A rather self centered Gwenn tries to push her sister Alice into the background, but it just may not work when it comes to Bobby Parrish.

Pat Marlowe, high school junior, is the sort of girl who likes to do things for people. For instance, her best, friend, Connie, likes Pat's brother, Mike. So Pat tries to promote a romance. When a would-be author, knowing that Pat's mother is a professional writer, asks for her manuscript to be read, Pat recklessly offers her help and immediately gets into hot water. Now, with the beginning of her junior year, Pat has a definite problem of her own. The boy she dated in her sophomore year is away at college, and she is feeling left out. When attractive Tim Davis shows an interest in her, she...

Book 3 of the Jordon Series. Struck by Cupid's arrow, Peter, Gwenn and Alice Jordon wonder who is right for them.

Book 6 of the Penny Parrish Series. Penny has retired from the theatre to a country farm. A part in a Broadway show may pique her interest to return to the theatre. How will her husband's preferences influence her decision?

Going on sixteen year old Tippy Parrish is devastated when her father is ordered to Germany. Tippy earnestly attempts to gain the title of Miss Tippy in the eyes of the Parrishes beloved cook, Trudy. Tragedy in the Parrish household contributes to the emergence of Miss Tippy. The Tippy Parrish Series: These stories of Tippy and the wonderful Parrish family are extremely heartwarming and endearing. It is a delight for the reader to watch Tippy and her friends progress into adulthood and follow these beloved characters through both heartaches and wondrous revelations. As readers travel ...

While in the Bavarian Alps, Tippy finds herself missing Peter Jordon despite her being lavished with attention by a handsome American Lieutenant.

As Tippy and her fiance, Army Lieutenant Kenneth Prescott are envisioning their being married, Ken is ordered to Korea. Peter Jordon occupies Tippy's time as she awaits Ken's return. When tragedy strikes, Tippy's hopes and dreams are shattered.

Book 4 of the Jordon Series. After years of life in boarding school, Susan dreams for a happy homelife. Will her dreams be shattered? Or will the Parrish family help? The Jordons are a large military family. General Jordon, a widower with two children–Jenifer and Peter–marries a woman who has two daughters–Gwenn and Alice. From this marriage, an additional four children are born: twins, Susan and Neal, Vance, and Bitsy. General Jordon's second wife dies as does the General's brother and sister-in-law. The General's nephew, Donny, then joins the Jordon family creating a family of ten...

Pam and Penny's grandmother is marrying Lucius and now they must agree on which college to attend. Pam must also decide what to do about Randy's growing feelings for her. The twins choose Harwood, where Mike is also going and Pam decides to break things off with Randy who is heading east to go to school. At Harwood, Pam meets Cade, who plays the same game of hard-to-get that Pam is used to playing herself. But she also meets Jeff, who doesn't really belong to her crowd, but attracts her nonetheless. At the end, she must decide who is more important to her and also changes her ways as she ...

A summer vacation aboard the Harwood College Showboat was an exciting prospect for Pam and Penny, the twins of Double Feature. To Penny, it meant being with Mike who had a job on the tugboat that pushed the old Regina from town to town along the Ohio River. To Pam it meant a chance to act, and perhaps a leading role in one of the gala showboat performances.

Graduation seems far away to Pam and Penny, as they start their second year of college, especially since their marriages are postponed until their fiances' graduations. But college days are crowded days and many things happen to shorten the waiting. Then sooner than Pam and Penny ever dreamed possible, it's commencement time... will a double wedding follow?